I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man; but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea from which all heights and depths are measured.

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Representative JAMES A. GARFIELD, speech nominating John Sherman for president.Proceedings of the Republican National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, June 28, 1880, p. 184 (1881).